Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

88 reviews

mbelle97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

content warning: cults, religious zealots

goodfriendguy's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

fernash's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Medical content, Trafficking, and Death of parent

berodatheelf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

A rich dystopian novel that focuses on several characters pre and post pandemic that is lyrically written. It was an interesting deep dive into the psyche of humans and humanity itself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I remember watching the TV show for a few episodes a few years ago so it's interesting seeing what I remember/ what they changed.

I really enjoy the structure of the book, where you follow characters over time and space.

And the fact that you don't necessarily know at the beginning which characters you are going to follow. Like it's so interesting going back in time to a character that we already know is dead and learn more about them, their hopes and dreams, their impact on others and then see their death from a totally different perspective. Very humanizing. Loved the "twist" of knowing who the prophet was and the parallels between his trauma and Kristen's trauma

. Also really enjoy the writing style. I like the feeling of not knowing where the author is taking you.

Loved all the Canadian and especially the Toronto references!

I have a difficult time visualizing some books but thought this book was written in a way that really facilitated visualizing what was happening, being familiar with Toronto also probably helped though.

I also enjoyed the tone of the book, it felt neither overly optimistic or pessimistic in imagining a post-apocalyptic world. 

One minor critique is that some of the side characters were difficult to distinguish between.

Specifically, Kristen's traveling symphony friends

I also kind of wished we had seen the reunion between Kristen and Jevin and if they 'd figure out how they knew each other

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Rape and Blood

izzyrbell's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Child death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

fedorasommora's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

The writing was meh. The story was interesting enough to keep me reading, but I’ve DNFed better books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Suicide, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

krispyyk's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Lots of stuff going on under the same theme - what makes life meaningful 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

parfait52's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

It took me several months to get through this book, which is saying something because it's fairly short. Every time I picked it up, I was interested enough. Once I put it down, though, I didn't feel the need to pick it back up. This book doesn't really have a plot so much as it has a story. And once you figure out how the story is forming and the author is doing, it's very easy to know where it's going to go. At times, I found the writing to be beautiful and profound. I found the concept fascinating, but the execution was stifling at points. There were several parts of the book that I personally found very boring and wanted to get past immediately. Overall, not a bad read. There are just books I've enjoyed more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

danimcthomas's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Absolute perfection. I still haven’t stopped thinking about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic